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A manpage is a piece of documentation (not just a single page) that comes with most programs installed on Ubuntu.This is invoked with the name of a program to call up a help manual with various sections detailing the operation of the program.

I am trying to get better about using documentation to understand command syntax but I realized I don't fully understand the symbols used which show all the options and parameters that can be passed ...

I've done some Googling and searched on askubuntu and haven't found my answer yet. I'd like to make some minor edits to the tsql man pages on my system only, to clarify things. I've found the man page ...

I am trying to reduce the footprint of my Ubuntu docker image. Given that there is very little use for the man files and I deleted them, committed the image and then tried to use it. AFAICT it did no ...

fg, bg and jobs are used for job management. And for some reason (maybe it's just me), I'm not able to find where their binaries are nor their manpages (whereis prints no information). which gives no ...

I have downloaded libstdc++-api.20140403.man.tar.bz2 from ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/libstdc++/doxygen/ and installed it.
man std::vector is ok, while man std::sort and man std::algorithm both failed, ...

There seems to be a way to get man pages to display in color (see here. It involves setting environment variables associated with less and adding these definitions to .bashrc. I tried doing the same ...

Online man pages in HTML with section anchors?
It would be good to have an online version of the Ubuntu man pages with direct links into subsections. That would allow to point someone to the relevant ...

I have set up UBUNTU Server on an HP-Proliant.
Idea is a simple SMB-File Server setup with restricted User rights in a mixed Win/Lin/OSx LAN
To achieve this I thought out a domain setup with samba.
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I know what x-terminal-emulator is and does, but I don't understand why there isn't exist a special manual page for it instead to be redirected to the manual page of gnome-terminal. I would like to ...

we use man foo to search about command foo. To know what is it and what its task and to find all switches.
But the point is when you want to Do foo and you do not know what is the command for that. ...

I'm new to Linux. I got the "Unix And Linux System Administration Handbook" It speaks of several verisons of linux and unix, and the commands for viewing linux man pages and not specific to ubuntu.
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Suppose I want to know the usage of -i switch in grep command without scrolling. I need the specification just for that command or at least see the screen show that first. So how? As you can say that ...

When looking at man-pages in the terminal I often come across words with bracketed numbers after them (like mkdir(2)).
If I am not mistaken, these are links or references to other man-pages.
If so, ...

I'm searching for man page documentation or alternatives for the php-pear package on Ubtunu 13.10. Concretely I'm stuck with the following issues (besides not finding the man page where I believe to ...

What's the difference between Documentation(doc), Manuals(man), Help, and Information(info)?
I've seen these four different words used across different system but mostly in Ubuntu. for the most part ...